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John Dolan
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The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.
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If you breathe out and you cannot breathe in again, you are dead. It’s as simple as that. As a Tibetan saying goes: “Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.”
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Why do we live in such terror of death? Because our instinctive desire is to live and to go on living, and death is a savage end to everything we hold familiar.
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“As someone once said, SINCERITY is the single most important human characteristic. So once you can fake THAT, you're made.”
― Everyone Burns
― Everyone Burns
“I would be a fully-paid-up member of the 'I Hate Paperwork Club' if I could summon the enthusiasm to fill in the application form.”
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― Everyone Burns
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it; or because it is in your traditions; or because many speak about it; or because it is found in your religious books; or because your teachers and elders believe it; or because you have become attached to it from habit.”
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“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it; or because it is in your traditions; or because many speak about it; or because it is found in your religious books; or because your teachers and elders believe it; or because you have become attached to it from habit.”
― Everyone Burns
― Everyone Burns
“Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived from the misfortune of others’? Schadenfreude.”
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“My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.”
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“Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.”
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Tompopaageo wrote: "John wrote: "Tompopaageo wrote: "Hey John, thanks for the 'friendvite', looking forward to checking out your books and reviews."You are extremely welcome - especially so as you are from my part o..."
OMG, you're a monkey hanger? ;)
John wrote: "Tompopaageo wrote: "Hey John, thanks for the 'friendvite', looking forward to checking out your books and reviews."You are extremely welcome - especially so as you are from my part of the world. ..."
Small world, Hartlepool here :)
Tompopaageo wrote: "Hey John, thanks for the 'friendvite', looking forward to checking out your books and reviews."You are extremely welcome - especially so as you are from my part of the world. I'm a Houghton-le-Spring boy originally. Well, we all have our crosses to bear :-)
Hey John, thanks for the 'friendvite', looking forward to checking out your books and reviews.
Carole wrote: "Hi thank you nice to know you."It's mutual, Carole :-)
D.E.M. wrote: "Thanks for the recommendation on The Steward by Christopher Shields, John! How's all with you?"Hey, thanks! I'm good. As usual not enough time for writing, but that's life. How's 2013 treating you DEM?
Thanks for the recommendation on The Steward by Christopher Shields, John! How's all with you?
You too, Blak :)